Frank Forester’s Field Sports Of The United States And British Provinces Of North America..
Bound in original half red morocco over marbled boards; spine in compartments decorated gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities slightly worn and traces of foxing largely confined to edges. A very good clean set.
£150.00
Publisher
The American News Company, 39 and 41 Chambers Street.,
Place
New York
Date
1873
Synopsis
New edition containing numerous corrections and additions with illustrations from nature, and a brief memoir of the author. in two volumes.
Item Description
TWO VOLUMES. 8vo. 5.75 x 8 inches. Vol. I, xlvi + 356 pp.; Vol. II, 383 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 18 engraved plates, including portrait frontispiece. Decorated by initials.
Notes
A comprehensive guide to field sports in North America in the mid-nineteenth century, arranged by different habitats, upland, coastal ('bay') and inland waters, wilderness, forest, mountain and prairie. The first volume is concerned with game birds with a section on sporting dogs; the second with wildfowl, turkeys and mammals, covering bison, moose, deer, mountain goats and sheep and bears, etc. Six appendices include the topics of fish and fishing, rabies and game laws. Herbert (1807-58) was descended from the Earls of Pembroke and educated at Eton and Cambridge. In 1831 he emigrated to the US in 1831 and son began to publish historical novels under his own name while creating the pseudonym, Frank Forester for his sporting titles. A full account of his life is given in volume I with an account of his suicide following the scandalous failure of his second marriage. The Field Sports was first appeared in 1849. This set is republished from the eighth edition of 1858 under a new imprint. The date is taken from the statement recording its entry into the Library of Congress.
[Stock No. 22541]
Subjects
19th Century • Americas • Hunting • Natural History • Sport • Sports/Pastimes